In the Ngarrankarni (Dreaming) a man went hunting with his dogs in Maraninjji country, in the Goomooloo hills. He didn’t look after those dingo dogs – he was wrong because he needed them to help him hunt.
He made camp, fed himself, but didn’t give those dogs any water or food. The dogs were very cross and ran away. The next morning, the man went looking for them – he climbed one of the high hills and called and called for them. They wouldn’t come back. He stayed on that hill and turned into stone – some old people say the dingo dogs turned him into stone. He is there today in the high mountain country.
Dingo Dreaming is a well-known Dreamtime story of the Gija people. As with many of their stories, the moral is clear and in this particular scenario, it is noted that one must be kind to animals. The alternate names for this depiction are “Dingo Dreaming” or “Devil Dog” and the iconography is representative of a particular hill in Gija country.